The murder of Ann Widdecombe has one lesson: both left and right need to detoxify our public discourse ...

With Marine Le Pen now free to run in next year’s election, France is entering uncharted political territory By Julian ...

Nigel Farage is facing his biggest challenge since he became an MP two years ago after a string of revelations about his ...

From the archive: Andy Burnham on Peter Mandelson, Iraq and cannabis By Jon Bernstein Andy Burnham, former cabinet minister, is back where he started. Geographically, that is. Kicked out of his ...

The Greater Manchester mayor could have a route back to parliament By Megan Kenyon Andy Burnham could have a way back into parliament after the MP for Makerfield, Josh Simons, announced he would be ...

Nationalism, we are told, defines our age. At any rate, it seems likely to have defined these May elections. In Scotland, there is a strong possibility – at the time of writing – that the Scottish ...

The UK is deploying facial recognition and AI tools at scale. The law is playing catch up By Rhi Storer In April, the Home Office announced £115m of new funding to create the “Police.AI” centre. Its ...

Young women – today and always – are less susceptible to delusions of grandeur At Britain’s premier defence conference, death is in demand Also: an epitaph for our times, and a novel way to read the ...

Energy policy has left us perilously exposed to global shocks By Dieter Helm When Israel and the US attacked Iran, there were bound to be consequences for the countries that depended on Gulf oil and ...

Will Keir Starmer survive the May elections? Loyalists are rallying around the Prime Minister, and he is determined to fight – but his leadership remains in doubt By Ailbhe Rea One of Keir Starmer’s ...

In his new book, Reform’s in-house academic set out to articulate his ideas. He produced trash By John Merrick Let’s get this out of the way early: Matt Goodwin’s new vanity press-published book, ...

The writer says his new book could be his last By George Monaghan In the first short story in Will Self’s first book, The Quantity Theory of Insanity, published in 1991, the narrator’s mother dies ...